A 2000-year-old fragment of Latin text on papyrus is expected to auction for £8,000-12,000 ($12,492-18,739).
Dating to around the first century BC to first century AD, it comes to Dreweatts & Bloomsbury in London on July 8.
 Egyptian texts are rarely written in Latin |
The lot originates in ancient Egypt and is particularly rare. While Greek and Coptic were common, Latin was barely ever used.
The auction house comments: "The discovery of any text on papyrus entirely in Latin is a sensation…
"This fragment was most probably written during the lifetimes of Julius Caesar, Cicero and Seneca the Younger, and as such, even in the condition it is in, it is a noble relic of the Ancient World and the glory that was Rome."
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